War of the Worlds as a Societal Piece
... When The War of the Worlds made its debut broadcast in 1938, the idea of alien life was an almost novel idea. ... The idea behind The War of the Worlds is much the same as the idea behind “The X-Files” and Star Trek: all three are categorized under the science fiction genre and are aimed at making the unbelievable believable to the general public; however, H. ... Wells purpose in writing The War of the Worlds was not to create a believable story about a Martian invasion of Earth. Perhaps those who listened to the original broadcast (or who read the book at a later date) did not even realize that they were allowing author Wells to achieve his purpose in writing the book, a story aimed at warning humanity of the destructive future that exists if mankind follows the same path filled with vanity and naive ideas about the abilities and indestructibility and subjugation of mankind The narrator of The War of the Worlds opens the first book with a description of mankind as a “transient creature” being watched by the Martians just as man watches and observes the single-celled organisms swimming in a drop of water on a microscope slide.